Just When You Thought the Left Couldn't Get Any Sicker - Killer of UHC CEO Accepts $300k From Donors

 RedState

  '"I know this is not a modern view, but #LuigiMangione didn't even have the stones to face the man he took out. He is a complete and total coward."

"Americans were shocked and horrified at the video of United Healthcare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson being gunned down in cold blood in the early morning hours of December 4, 2024, on a Manhattan sidewalk. No matter your feelings about health insurance companies, this was a man, a husband and father, minding his own business, on his way to a meeting. Within days, his alleged killer was caught. While that might be of some comfort to his family and friends, what has happened since is nothing short of horrific and actually gives a glimpse into the twisted thinking of the left." . . .

READ MORE: Jimmy Kimmel Proves How Unstable He and Everyone Around Him Is With Commentary of Luigi Mangione

The hero worship surrounding Luigi Mangione is disgusting. No one would care about this guy if he was less "attractive." He executed someone in cold blood by shooting them in the back and then pissed his pants when he got caught. He isn't a hero or a saint https://t.co/kKZ1W90aNo

— Jake Wienhold (@jakewienhold) December 24, 2024

'Scientific Socialism' Has Come to Pacific Palisades

Stephen Green   

"Newsom and Bass might design the Scientifically Perfect Palisades of their dreams, but who will live in it?"

"You can’t rebuild the same. We have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind," California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN last week in an interview about rebuilding the burned-out Pacific Palisades. "We have to look at infrastructure or redundancy systems. Ingress, egress, as it relates to emergency management and planning materials."

"The interview seems to have flown under the radar, but when I caught it this morning, a bit belatedly, my alarm bells went off left and right.

"Well, to be honest, they were all on the left.

"Whatever happened to Newsom's promise that he'd eliminate red tape and accelerate the rebuilding of one of L.A.'s nicest and most historic neighborhoods? The former homeowners of Pacific Palisades who were hoping to quickly rebuild from the ashes now understand to their very cores what Otter told Flounder in "Animal House": "You f***ed up, you trusted us."

"Anyone dumb enough to believe Newsom's promise to get people rebuilding within six or nine months... well, they probably voted for him. Gooder and harder, California.

"What Newsom says needs to be done before lots can be cleared and construction begins looks to me like a huge, centralized process involving an awful lot of well-connected and high-priced "experts" empaneled to redesign Pacific Palisades according to "scientific" principles involving all the techno-babble Newsom went on about in that CNN sit-down. Instead of, you know, letting people build the homes they want in the kind of city they like. 

"If the temporary council to name the permanent council has completed its initial studies on who should conduct the actual studies that will someday mandate a Scientifically Perfect Palisades in terms of those "infrastructure or redundancy systems, ingress, egress, as it relates to emergency management and planning materials" has finished finding a list of acceptable names in six months, I'd be shocked. 

"If you think it's expensive and time-consuming just to get permission to add a small deck on the back of a Pacific Palisades home (which it is), just wait until a panel of experts gets together to redesign the entire neighborhood from the ashes up." . . .

Trump Sanctions International Criminal Court And Those Who Assist It

Legal Insurrection

Legislation passed the U.S. House imposing sanctions on the ICC, but the legislation was filibustered by Democrats in the Senate, where it has stalled. 

"The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a purportedly noble entity that was at risk of being weaponized for political purposes, like almost every other international organization. It’s why the U.S., Israel, Russia, India, China, and numerous other nations refused to join.

"ICC jurisdiction is limited to investigating and prosecuting people from member states, but that has not stopped it from being used to investigate the U.S. conduct in Afghanistan. That action led to sanctions being imposed in 2020 during Trump’s first term, which were then revoked by Biden. Trump then revoked Biden’s revocation of sanctions soon after being sworn in.

"So contrary to what you might think from press accounts, U.S. sanctions on the ICC started with ICC conduct towards the U.S., not towards Israel.

"In November 2024, the ICC  issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and (former) Defense Minister Yoav Gallant relating to Gaza. I addressed those ICC actions and the possiblity of renewed sanctions on November 23, 2024, ICC Deserves To Be Gutted With Sanctions After Lawless Arrest Warrant For Bibi Netanyahu:" . . .

Human-rights lawyer Amal Clooney [actor George Clooney's wife] was part of a panel that recommended arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 
                                                Below: These are YOUR people, Amal!

President Trump addresses his largest TV audience ever during an interview before the Super Bowl yesterday

Peter Barry Chowka   

"Trust Elon? Oh, he’s not gaining anything. In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it. He’s so into it. But I told him do that. Then I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He’s going to find the same thing. Then I’m going to go to the military. Let’s check the military. We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. But I campaigned on this, Bret."

"During the 59th Super Bowl pre-game program yesterday on the FOX broadcast network, an interview with President Donald Trump was featured. It was recorded on Friday at Mar-a-Lago and conducted by FOX News’s chief anchor Bret Baier. The all-day coverage of the “big game” on FOX was expected to attract one of the largest audiences of viewers in U.S. television history, on the order of 100 million people or more. President Trump, like several of his predecessors (including Barack Obama), was therefore smart to participate.

"Meanwhile, on game day, the president flew from Florida to New Orleans to be the first president in history to attend in-person a Super Bowl game. During the flight, the president, while sitting at his desk on Air Force One, met with a small gaggle of White House reporters for about 30 minutes and answered their questions.

"A transcript of President Trump’s interview with Bret Baier is below, modified slightly for brevity and clarity. (Video link can be found here.) ". . .

. . ."Before returning the FOX broadcast network’s coverage to the pre-game show, Baier announced that more of his interview with President Trump will run on Special Report, the hour long newscast he anchors tonight on the FOX News channel at 6 PM ET."

I am a Jordanian Palestinian and I support Trump’s settlement plans for Gazans

Then let us pray that Jordan never is run by an Ayatollah. TD

Mudar Zahran

The international community must listen to what Palestinians actually want instead of imposing impractical solutions crafted by out-of-touch bureaucrats. President Trump is publicly stating what most Palestinians and Jordanians privately believe. As a businessman, he offers a practical solution to a conflict that has been endlessly theorized but never resolved. 

"President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza’s Palestinians relocate to Jordan and Egypt on a “short term or long term” basis has been dismissed as diplomatically “unprecedented.”

"The critics are wrong.

"Jordan is a majority Palestinian state ruled by an ethnic Hashemite monarchy of fewer than 100 people. If Palestinians have a “right of return,” it’s to Jordan. Palestinians in the West Bank/Judea & Samaria and Gaza were Jordanian and remain so, despite the Hashemite Kingdom’s abandonment of them.

"Jordan and Egypt oppose assuming responsibility for the Palestinians. “They will,” says President Trump. He is right — both historically and legally. Jordan’s own nationality law confirms that Palestinians are legally Jordanian. According to Jordanian Nationality Law No. (6) of 1954: "Anyone who held Palestinian nationality before May 15, 1948, and habitually resided in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan between December 20, 1949, and February 16, 1954, is considered a Jordanian citizen."

"In 1951, Jordan’s Hashemite regime declared sovereignty over Palestinian territories designated for Arabs under the U.N. Partition Plan. The Jericho Conference formalized this, with Palestinians recognizing the Hashemites as "Kings of Palestine." Consequently, every resident of Gaza was considered a Jordanian citizen between 1949 and 1954. By rejecting Trump’s proposal, the Hashemite regime violates international law, which prohibits rendering individuals stateless or denying them entry into their own country.

"Jordan occupies 78% of British Mandate Palestine. The British installed the Hashemites as rulers until 1946. In 1949, Jordan revoked Palestinians' British Palestinian passports and replaced them with Jordanian passports. Most Gazans are refugees from areas previously controlled by Jordan’s Hashemite regime, making them Jordanian citizens by ancestry with the right to return.

"Like many post-colonial Arab states, Jordan is an artificial entity. It lacked its own passport until 1949, relying instead on British-issued Palestinian passports. The UN only recognized Jordan as a as a state in 1955. It also had no currency of its own until 1951, using the British-issued Palestinian pound, which bore the inscription "Palestine/Eretz Israel – Land of Israel.". . .  .

Profile in Courage: Trump’s Gaza Proposal 

"Palestinian children surely deserve better than being raised in Hamas’ incubator of hatred."

Trump’s Gaza proposal may not be viable, but at least we’ve moved away from the constant reiteration of the unworkable “two-state” solution.

"Debra Saunders’ treatment of the idea was also very good. What I’d say is a few things. First, there’s the old admonition: Take Trump seriously, not literally."

Marco Rubio, not Obama, on Cuba

Silvio Canto, Jr.

We tried engagement under President Obama and opened an embassy. What did it get us? Nothing but Russian military ships stopping in Havana Harbor. 

"Don't expect Secretary Marco Rubio to visit Havana and watch a ball game with Raul Castro. Not Rubio. In fact, the Trump-Rubio team is sending a totally different message. Here is the story:

Since the first days of the Republican administration, Rubio has been putting pressure on the island. In a press release last Friday, he made it clear that his government was reversing any measures taken by Biden that could benefit Cuba, and reported the new sanctions, which represent another economic blow to Havana. Among these is the reactivation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, also known as the LIBERTAD Act, which opens the way for Americans to take legal action against companies or people who handle “assets confiscated by the Cuban regime” after 1959.

Rubio also revealed that on January 31 he reactivated the so-called Cuba Restricted List, which prohibits transactions with companies under the control of Cuban military groups, such as the GAESA conglomerate, the business group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), which controls a large part of the hotel complexes, hard currency stores, travel agencies, financial services and other areas of the economy. According to the State Department, it is a way “to deny resources to the very branches of the Cuban regime that directly oppress and surveil the Cuban people while controlling large swaths of the country’s economy.”

"This is refreshing and the kind of hard line needed." . . .